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From: giebelhaus@hi-csc.UUCP (Timothy R. Giebelhaus)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: : Xroff
Message-ID: <3923fc62.b263@hi-csc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 87 15:29:00 GMT
References: <6224@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <740@vixie.UUCP>
Organization: Honeywell CSDD, Golden Valley, MN
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Keywords: troff preview etc...
Summary: What are the problems with xroff?

In article <740@vixie.UUCP> paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) writes:
>Xroff is a version of ditroff as ported to lots of oddball OS's (BSD, MSDOS,
>VMS, etc) by Image Network in Palo Alto or Mountain View or some such.  It
>can be purchased with support for HP-lj[+/II/500] or PostScript(tm) or
>Xerox 4045 (hence Xroff's name, I believe).  You pay more if you plan to 
>use more fonts, CPUs, users, printers, different kinds of printers, etc.
Actually it also works for most cpus including the ones that are not 
oddball.  The pricing is based on the number of users and the size of
the printer.  Extra fonts and more than one cpu does cost extra.

>I'd look at EROFF (sorry, don't know who makes it or where they are) before
>commiting to XROFF.  XROFF has a few oddball problems at one of my clients
>that I have never been able to resolve.
Could you please let me know what these problems are?  I have xroff and
I have not noticed any problems.
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